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12.31.2025 Featured Story

Year in Review: Shelter Island School in 2025

For the first time in his tenure as school superintendent, Brian Doelger, Ed.D., saw the proposed school budget for 2025-26 defeated by voters last May. It was also the...

12.08.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island students getting the true holiday spirit

On a cold November day, inside Shelter Island School’s art room, a group of students gathered around the center of the room as teacher Catherine Brigham instructs the students...

12.05.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island volleyball athletes honored

Shimmering trees and chandeliers were the backdrop to a crowd of nearly 700 people on the night of Dec. 2 for the annual Suffolk County Volleyball Coaches Association’s awards...

12.03.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Secondary School Honor Roll

HONOR ROLL QUARTER 1 Grade 12 High Honor Roll Recipients Elsie Mae Brigham • Harrison Clark • Lauren Gibbs • Daniel Hernandez Rivera •Lexi Jernick • Michael Kotula • Mary...

12.01.2025 Featured Story

Birds of prey showcased at Mashomack

On Saturday, Nov. 29, 30-plus bird enthusiasts of all ages gathered behind the visitor’s center at the Mashomack Preserve to meet four raptors native to the area. The birds...

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11.19.2025 Featured Story

It’s not your parents’ dress code: Students seek consistency, equality

As the Shelter Island School administration and Board of Education focus on likely revisions to the District’s dress code, early discussion indicates an effort to be guided by student...

11.18.2025 Featured Story

Two Shelter Island athletes shine at state championships

The New York State Cross Country Championships is one of the most demanding and intimidating meets of the fall season. Bringing deep rosters from programs across every corner of...

11.17.2025 Featured Story

Cardboard Campout: Chilling for a cause: Students raise awareness and funds

The Shelter Island High School chapter of the National Honor Society recently hosted the annual Cardboard Campout for Habitat for Humanity. Students in grades 10 through 12 were invited...

11.16.2025 Featured Story

School treasurer cherishes role

When Deborah Vecchio retired as treasurer of the Shelter Island School District last June after 25 years, she knew she was leaving the business office in good hands. She...

11.12.2025 Featured Story

Students want consistent dress code: Teacher honored with ‘Beacon of Excellence’ award

The Shelter Island School District plans a revision of its dress code taking into consideration concerns previously brought to the Board of Education. At its base, student representative to...

11.09.2025 Featured Story

Hands-on Shelter Island History: Students partner with H’way Depart. to restore markers

How three Shelter Island students came to assist Highway Department employees in restoring four historical markers on Island roadways can be traced to an obscure upstate judge who once...

10.18.2025 Featured Story

School preps students, parents for Erin’s Law

Shelter Island secondary school students and their parents will soon be on notice the district is implementing Erin’s Law to protect children from sexual abuse. What started as a...

10.13.2025 Featured Story

Doelger boosts spending with comparisons to other districts

As Shelter Island School officials are looking ahead to their 2026-27 budget, they received word of several superlatives the district has earned, said Superintendent Brian Doelger, Ed.D. Niche.com, which...

09.29.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island students survey students on cell phone ban

Recently, The Inlet, the Shelter Island School newspaper, published a survey it had conducted on a new policy passed by New York State in May 2025, which requires a...

09.22.2025 Uncategorized

Fun and hard work for car wash kids: Fundraiser at the school for class trip

There were rainbows on School Street Saturday morning. The kind that appear in the mist from hoses spraying in sunlight, as eight students and three parents had the annual...

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